Replit Blog
- Apr 22, 2022
Winning projects of MadeWithReplit
Whats #MadeWithReplit? MadeWithReplit was our first ever ReplCon hackathon! Participants had the chance to win amazing cash prizes, share their work with the world, and hone their coding skills. We wanted this hackathon to celebrate and inspire our community members. As such, the prizes were $10k total, but making friends along the way and the pride of sharing inspired projects were priceless bonuses as well. Even more, there was no theme, so replers could code with unbounded creativity! Read on to check out our winning submissions! Honorable mentions Most Replity: ReplCraft
Apr 18, 2022How Do You Do, Fellow Teachers?
Hi everyone! I'm David Morgan (@LessonHacker), I'm stepping into the Teacher + Customer Success role and am ridiculously excited to be working at Replit and being part of this amazing community. I have been working as a secondary school Computer Science teacher in the UK for the best part of two decades, and am passionate about making CompSci education frictionless and accessible for all. I'm sure I had more hair on my noggin when I started teaching though… but, rather than blather on about myself, I thought that, by way of introduction and to show off my teacher-cred, I'd start off by showing you my favourite thing about Replit for teaching programming. Collaborate for the Win I don't think there's enough love given to the way that Replit multiplayer also allows collabotative communication between many users. As a teacher I find this sort of thing invaluable, and it's one of the big differentiators that makes Replit more powerful than any other IDE because you can collaborate on code exactly the same way you'd work on something like a Google Doc. Multiplayer is the superpower of Repls, and Teams for Edu turns multiplayer on by default.
Apr 17, 2022Your New Replit Profile
You may have noticed that the "My Repls" and "profile" pages look different. We decided to combine these surfaces into one unified page. The new profiles are fresh, more social, and more customizable than ever before. Go take a second and customize your profile! Add links, a banner, and pin your favorite Repl. What changed? We combined the My Repls and profile pages Live presence
Mar 30, 2022We Built a Search Engine
For the past few months, we have been building a Replit-native search engine. It is remarkably powerful, and we are really excited for you all to try it out. We believe that you should be able to find anything on Replit in less than 30 seconds. This might sound simple, but when you have 100 million+ Repls, it becomes complicated. :) When you search for something on Replit today, you'll see a page with relevant results from the following categories: Repls Templates Code (yes, code)
Mar 28, 2022Build a Speech-to-Text App with AssemblyAI on Replit
Transcription, or speech-to-text (STT), is a very helpful feature for various use cases, from AI assistants to video captioning. You can use it to create immersive virtual experiences and accessible interfaces unlike ever before. It’s no wonder STT-driven apps and services are in high demand. In this article, you’ll learn how to implement STT functionality in your own app with ease using AssemblyAI. Its API provides simple access to advanced AI models that can transcribe your audio or video files and even real-time streams. You’ll use AssemblyAI together with React, Next.js, and Replit to build a simple app for transcribing uploaded files. You can follow along with the repl here. What Is AssemblyAI Before diving in, take a moment to get to know AssemblyAI and its vast feature set. On top of both real-time and async transcription, AssemblyAI API provides many features related to general audio intelligence:
Mar 25, 2022Build Your Own Livestreaming Service with api.video
With the recent shift in the popularity of remote work environments, the demand for livestreaming services has increased. Even prior to the shift, many global companies have used livestreaming services for their organization’s all-hands meetings. api.video provides APIs and SDKs that make it easier to build your own livestreaming service and host it on your website. Additionally, they also provide solutions for uploading videos, encoding videos, video delivery, and video analytics. Here are some of the specific features of api.video: You can securely upload and store videos from your own user interface to api.video. The video can then be shared worldwide via their responsive video player. They also support progressive uploads that let you simultaneously upload large videos. You can customize your video player by choosing a video player theme, adding your own thumbnail image, and adding your own logo. You can create your own livestreaming service, which can either be done by using their API/SDK or by using their User Interface (i.e., you won’t have to code). You can access stats and analytics about your videos to learn more about your users and their engagement. Some of the use cases for api.video include:
Mar 22, 2022Making a Real-Time Chat App with Supabase on Replit
Firebase is arguably the most popular backend as a service (BaaS) offering. It’s created by Google and comes with almost everything you’d need to create a great app, including a database, file storage, user authentication, and real-time communication. However, it’s closed source, meaning all your and your users’ data is under Google’s control. That’s where Supabase can help. Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative that aims to provide a similar set of functionalities and development experience, without controlling your data. In this article, you’ll learn how to use Supabase together with Replit, a cloud-based IDE, to create a real-time chat app. You’ll see how powerful and versatile both Supabase and Replit are and how you can use them to create an amazing app in no time. You can follow along with the tutorial using this repl. How the Chat App Works Before diving into the code, let’s talk about the stack and how the chat works.
Mar 21, 2022Operating Principles
Mission first Computers are the most powerful tools to exist in the history of humanity. Sadly most people are mere consumers of these machines. Only a relative few–the professional software developer–can use this superpower to its fullest extent. It’s creating an unbalanced world where there are programmers, and then there are those who are programmed. The situation is analogous to literacy before the printing press, where only the powerful had access to books and written communication. The invention of the printing press led to democratic, scientific, and industrial revolutions, but it took about a century from creation to revolution, which meant that an entire generation of people had to grow up with new skills, outlooks, and ways of learning and communicating. Replit exists to enable the next billion software creators. Our bet is that if more people can create software more people would want to do it. If more people code, more people will be able to independently create and generate wealth on the internet, regardless of their background. If we’re successful, anyone who's willing to learn and generate good ideas will be wealthy. Advancing our mission is not only a business imperative—it’s also a moral one. Anything that distracts us from our mission will be ruthlessly cut. Think radical When we first put coding in the browser, people said it was stupid, and that nobody wanted what we were building. When we made coding multiplayer, they said no one would want to work this way. When we said we said learning and building is one and the same, no one wanted to fund us; they said we’re not focused enough. Every step of the way, we’ve questioned norms, we’ve taken contrarian technology bets that paid off years in the future, and we’ve hired people no one wanted to hire who are now industry leaders. We’re going to keep doing it especially when people tell us it sounds crazy.
Mar 16, 2022Reasons Not to Join Replit
We want the people at Replit to really love working here (we do!). To help you make an informed decision about whether that would be the case for you, we challenged ourselves to come up with a list of reasons someone wouldn’t want to join our team. We hope it’ll help you learn more about the way we work together and whether that’s the way you’d be excited to work, too. 1. You don’t think the internet should be an open platform Replit’s mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. To realize that mission, we need to be a place where all kinds of people, with all kinds of backgrounds, experiences, ideologies, and values are warmly welcomed.
- Mar 8, 2022
Hack Week 2022 Recap
Hey, everyone! I’m sure you all heard about the infamous, annual Replit Hack Week, but what exactly is it? Every year, we come together as a team to brainstorm, hack, and push the limits of our platform to set the tone for the year. During the first Hack Week last year, our team integrated Nix into Replit which transformed how we do infrastructure, packages, and languages. Nix also allows users to configure Replit to suit their needs. In line with our purpose for Hack Week ‘22, the theme for the year is “Community and Extensibility”.
Feb 27, 2022Kaboom Draw
Programming is hard, especially for beginners where the code <-> output feedback loop is cumbersome. People need to click run button, see output, change code, click run again see output. There are a lot of ideas that greatly improved this experience like live-reloading (a lot in the audio / visual context, and UI dev). However the most exciting idea I've seen is still the experiments done by Bret Victor, like in Learnable Programming. Seeing his experiements on combining live reload + sensible controls still takes my breath every time. You might know we're on the way of adopting Codemirror 6 to replace Monaco for a more extensible and maintainable editor (shoutout to Sergei for carrying us through this hard time!). One day I saw Faris made a css color picker codemirror 6 extension and it got me thinking, hmm CM6's extension system is really handy, what if we make some more sensible controls over all kinds of values, and make something like the Bret Victor experiments? Excited by the idea, I decided to do shove off some non-urgent tasks and do a little hack week on my own to jam out these thoughts. But first, gotta book a slot on the demo calendar: excited to excite Barron
Feb 17, 2022Getting Started with Solidity on Replit
Have you ever wanted to quickly prototype an idea, reproduce a bug, or share a code demo? Maybe you just got an idea for a new smart contract that allows users to bet on soccer teams, and you want to quickly prototype this and share it with your teammates. In all of these instances, Replit is the perfect solution. Replit is a powerful online integrated developer environment (IDE) with a simple user interface that supports more than fifty programming languages. It also supports real-time collaboration, allowing for use cases like team member onboarding or hands-on learning for students. It integrates seamlessly with GitHub, allowing you to create repositories from a repl or load a repo from GitHub without any manual setup. Replit also gives you the power to share demos through a link that can be accessed by any device, anywhere in the world. In this article you’ll learn how to get started with Solidity on Replit. Solidity is a statically typed, curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on Ethereum. It can also be used by other blockchains for interoperability and easier migration. Getting Started with Solidity on Replit In this section, you’ll learn how to get started with Solidity on Replit and deploy your first smart contract.
Feb 14, 2022Make a Multiplayer Game with Kaboom.js and Heroic Labs
Many developers are familiar with Replit, the in-browser IDE. However, you may not know that it can be used to make full applications and games. With Kaboom, a JavaScript game-programming library that helps you quickly make fun games, and Nakama, an open source distributed server created by Heroic Labs, you can easily create a multiplayer game that runs on Replit. In this article, you’ll learn how to make a multiplayer game using Kaboom in Replit, utilizing Heroic Labs as the game server. If you want to check out the finished product or just follow along with this tutorial, you can use this REPL. What Are Multiplayer Games Multiplayer games are usually played as matches, where players join a match and compete for high scores or try to defeat each other in a battle royale with other players from all over the world. The action is happening in real time and can be played as a team or individual; Nakama can support both kinds.
Feb 2, 2022What We Look for When We Interview
We’re on a mission to bring the next billion software creators online. In 2022, to get there, we're focusing on: Making Replit run fast on popular devices across the globe. Helping new coders build and ship for their first time. Reaching those goals requires infrastructure work and real-world experimentation, so we are growing our team!
Jan 20, 2022Getting Started with Rust on Replit
If you’ve been debating which new programming language to learn, Rust is a strong option. According to a recent Stack Overflow developer survey, Rust is: The most loved programming language, according to almost eighty-seven percent of surveyed developers. One of the highest-paid languages, only behind Ruby, Perl, and a pack of ever-lucrative functional languages. The best way to learn Rust, of course, is to start coding. This is where Replit comes in. Replit is a collaborative in-browser integrated development environment (IDE) that supports over fifty programming languages with built-in tooling to write and organize code; manage dependencies; perform version control; and build, run, test, and visualize execution of applications. There are a few reasons to use Replit when learning Rust: